Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1899 — Page 7

« r „ B roa'ls4oo J “’5* ’ WUe '• 2 «■? ■j |l “7><’ r on r«m<i '4O labor on ro»“ 65 00 '> stone 4 00 workonroai 21 6 5 4 ■fc!e> ork 21 37 »?l^nbridge ß ,. ... 375 ■r „ ger shoveling gravel.. 131 4. ’ 1 Pick « ' 5 ■ ■n.tt, shoveling gravel 2 00 ’ ( irods •) in tile afcsas*"- 85 1 stone..- • . 3(<9 4t * on scraper j *» •■»E«‘ V n-paint * K « crossing 375 ‘')^Ri,r[ingin ditch. • »K across.the road J<® . J l^E k 00 in tiie ■■ - 10 00 33 00 on road ~ ■ $1447 S 3 1“ ■ DOO TAX FUND. RECEIPTS. at date of last report ? 291 02 a county treas. Jan. 1899. .m 2 do g tax fundt 298 54 lures since last report... a hand» 108 »8 EXPENDITURES. ' one sheep kille ’$ 5 00 one turkey Killed 2 40 -<K "beep killed « 00 $ 13 40 summary. I A ' 'iKwi ~ 30 > 37 ‘ 0 09 K.( 22 ‘4 65 2203 00 91 65 KL 579 4Q 74., 92 ■< ItilU lit 1147 83 171 Ml ■ 2:18 54 |S|I 62 108 92 ,'«■ ... 17135 51 $11317 15 S4BIS 39 of Trusteeß332 00 Adams county: being duly sworn, on ■ IK.wmum is true and cor--1 r believes. ■ '.bills sTF.EI.E. Trustee. I ami sworn to before me, this 7th ISW. ■ I NOAH MANGOLD. ■ Auditor Adams County. Be — ■—— —— - ' V It's easy to .*LE ’ haul .. / II load up ■fA '/ you urease Hwgli the wagon ggcsg! wheels with MIiCA Axle Grease W| ’’ b'ix and '-ani why it’s the ’ cvt-r put on’au axh’. Sr©, ' Made ■rANDARD Oil. co. Vg K| ■■ nDr Williams' Indian Pile M | LA* Hutment will cure Blind. HI p and Itching ■ I tePiies. It absorbs the tumors. M ■ allays the itching at once, acts a poultice, gives instant reDr. Wihiams’ Indian Pile Ointis prepared for Piles and Itchprivate parts. Every box is ‘''■Bited. By druggists, by mail on reK- • Wcents and SI.OO. WILLIAMS ■BIMG CO.. Props.. Cleveland, Ohio. ■BL Our famous BLUE ■nCD tABKI.BBAKB. world. Prices will surHMBI F” prise yon. We deaver fr-in Chicago, Omaha ’■F 1 " <>r St. Paul, as desired. ■ Write for prices and samples. ■WERYWARD A. CO., CHICAGO , ii.ui ■iw — r.nffllah nUußord BpwbA. wYROYAI PILLS Ortolani end Only Genuine. A s»rt alvtp r-hable. mons ast L>ruig.',» for t.. Ac J!f r i fn.jEwA /bj BIX i li'-.ni in Ited au l tnetalacxWy s-aue.' with blue ribbon. Take Bwuno other. Kffutt rubitiZu- v m i imuaiioviA. At DroggM'a, or •-nd . ' ln RUmpa fw par*, ion lar I, l *tinM>nUL3 and ■ Jk so- LbClc*,” »n Urur, Lv rrta.ru 10,000 TMtimcnUU .Vjoe DrurzKa ( UlcheMer CLemtcul Co., • MuaUon f ynare, I’MILADA., 5’Ahr Axle Grease |WI[ ■ ■Bvirthii»\ lr IBs '■al ed^ y Heat o* Cold. at Centennial, and World’s Fair. L r azer Lubricator Co., ■W- Chciago, St Lotili, New York. I fe ri\eeley I fCOhnl Produce each a disease L* having definite patholF’UllAa <>s? - v .’ *he diabase yields easily to the Double r®B€ C O Chloride of Gold TreatB!-_ w Juntas administered at BW *s* la K .. Ce,C y v 1 '"•non-ihe only -^^•Uicati^?5 thern In diana. °nfidential. LW~« th Adams Street.

WHAT HE WAS AFTER. The Old Farmer', Anawer Made the Young Fellon. Weary. The help we get nowadays don’t amount to shucks. Time was when the help you hired in haying time could do a decent day’s work, but this year they’re wurs'n ever.” Old Farmer Smith was getting in hay at bis farm in a suburban town, and had two or three new men at work with him. The old man continued: “Tell you what it is, old as I am 1 can pack more hay on to a wagon than any two men of the present day can fork up.” “Suppose you try it, old man," suggested one of the men, at the same time tipping the wink to his mate on the opposite side to "sock it” to the old man. The old fellow needed no second invitation. With a bound he mounted the cart, and was stowing away hay at a tremendous rate. Cp came forkful after forkful, first on one side and then upon the other. The “help” was putting in its best licks and the old man was kept squirming around in lively style, much to the amusement of all hands. The “help” was rapidly getting tired; it would never do to give up and allow the old man to come off victorious. Something must be done at once. “When I put up a heavy forkful on this side, give him all you can lift from the other end and knock him out,” said one of the men to the other in an undertone. The plan worked well. One of the men lifted an extraordinary big forkful, just putting it upon the edge of the load, and while the old man was leaning over endeavoring to get it in place the fellow on the other side threw all he could lift upon the back of the old fellow, which, of course, upset him and sent him sprawling to the ground. “Hello! what are you down here for?” help No. 1. endeavoring as well as he could to conceal his merriment. Quick as a flash from the old man came the answer: “After more hay!” This answer tired the help completely.—Boston Courier. HE’S WISE NOW. Declares That No Girl Can Ise Him For a Dray. “You don't catch me ever doing anything for any girl again as long as I live,” said the young man with the polka dot band on his hat. “No. slree. I was an easy mark once, but I’ve got wise to myself now. “Miss Peach went to Cape May last Thursday, and when I heard she was going I had to break in and ask if I might come up and carry her bag to the train. I was bound to make a grand stand play with her, you understand. She said I might, and you couldn’t have held me. I was up at her house before the doors were open, and there she was with a bag the size of a trunk, all knobby and lumpy on the outside from the things she’d jammed into it. You know bow a woman packs —puts five Saratogas full of things into one small steamer trunk and gets the janitor to sit on the lid so It'll go shut. “Well, that’s the way Miss Peach’s bag was packed, and it weighed a ton at that. I picked it up gayly—lt had a crate of umbrellas and parasols and a box of candy and a basket of fruit and a rug and a jacket and a bandbox and a bundle of magazines and a few other trifles—and we set off. When we got to the station, I lugged the things into the waiting room and sat down with the bag on my knees. “Pretty soon I looked down, and there was a stream of something black running out of it and soaking into my new gray trousers. Did that girl say she was sorry? Did she say she was a born fool for packing things l.ke that in a bag? Did siie tell me I was an angel of light? No, she didn't. She just looked at me haughtily. “ ‘Oh, Mr. Skaggs,’ says she, ‘There you’ve gone and spilled nil my shoe polish. How awfully careless of you.’ “Never again, and you watc'.i me. No more helping girls get out of town for me. They’re all selfish brutes, girls are, and I'm a wise guy to learn it so early.”—Washington Pest. He Followed Soil. The principal of one of the public schools was very much surprised one day not long before school closed, it is the custom in some of the schools when a stranger, or more likely the principal or one of the trustees, enters for them wo say to the school at large. “Good morning, children.” Then the children, as with one voice, will answer: “Good morning, sir.” It may have been this custom which brought about the surprise for the principal. The children in the primary school had been sewing, and the work was done remarkably well. It was warm, uncomfortable weather, and the children had done so well that the teacher thought they should be rewarded by the approbation of the principal, and she sent for him to come to her room. When lie entered, the sewing was around everywhere, and the room looked so much more like a dressmaker’s shop than a school that he exclaimed involuntarily: “Why, hello!” “Hello!” responded every little mite in the room and so spontaneously that teacher and principal turned away that the children might not see them smile. —New York Times. Cool In Church. Said an experienced church officer: “The grumbling and rage over the heat In church largely springs from original sin As a matter of fact, a church, especially if of brick or stone construction. is generally the coolest place in town.’’—Church Economist.

He Ate Illa Fill. A kcal clergyman is telling a joke on j himself. He went to Chicago on business and was asked by a family in his church to call on a married daughter there. The pastor called and received a hospitable welcome. They urged him | to come to dinner, but he had an en- : gagement. Then they remarked, “Well, will you not eat a little luncheon?’’ The hostess pointed as she spoke to a email table on which were a small dish of salad, some bread and fruit. “Well, I dcn’t care if I do,” replied the caller, who drew tip a chair and began an onslaught on the provisions. He fancied they had been arranged expressly for him. and it was only after he had got throngh that he noticed the blank looks of the family. In fact, he had devoured the entire luncheon which all had expected to eat. "Madam, what must you think of me?” he exclaimed to the hostess. “Bat let me beg of you not to judge nil Kentuckians by me. I am the sole stupid one in our state.” He was equal to the lady whose hostess showed her a dish of water cress at a side table just before dinner was served. Thinking it bad just been purchased, she stuck her hand in the dish and took a bandful of it only to find it dressed with French salad dressing and prepared to accompany the birds at the meal.—Louisville Times. He Noticed the Eikenefu*. A Parisian swell recently had a crayon picture of himself made, which he afterward pretended to find fault with. “It does not bear the slightest resemblance to me,” said be. “and I will not take it.” The artist protested, but all to no avail. After the dandy had left the painter added to the portrait a magnificent pair of ass’ ears and exhibited it in the window, thus altered, to the gaze of the curious public. It hadn't been long exposed when the dandy entered the artist’s studio in a towering rage, and, finding that threats amounted to nothing, he at last offered to buy it, even at a considerable advance upon the original price. “It wasn’t strange you didn’t recognize your resemblance to the picture at first,"said the painter, “but I knew you’d notice the likeness as soon as I added those ears. ” —Spare Moments. Marriage by Uniter. Among ignorant people of English birth it is fully believed that a wife bought with money or goods is legally married if the purchaser leads her all I the way home by a halter. Mr. Baring Gould, the English antiquarian, tells of a village poet known to him who bought a wife for a half crown and led her 12 miles to his cottage. The squire and the rector protested to the village poet that he was net legally wedded. “Why, yes I be.” he replied. “I’ll take my Bible oath I never cnce tcok the baiter off till she’d crossed the doorsill and the door was shut. ”

The latest instances of such wife sales occurred in 1858 and 1859, when women were sold in Little Horton and in Dudley. In these cases a blue ribbon took the place of the straw baiter. But. gentle ladies, the symbolic idea was the same. A Laugh on Lord Kelvin. A good story is related of Lord Kelvins' lecturing methods at the Glasgow university. As a professor of science he can use long words in such formidable array as would make a dictionary break its binding with horror. During a course of lectures cnce on magnetism, for instance, he defined an ideal magnet as “an infinitely long, infinitely thin, uniform and uniformly and longitudinally magnetized bar,” and the misguided students vocifeorusly cheered, which caused tbe professor tc say, “Silence!” This definition was made and cheered, with the usual reprimand, frequently during the lectures. Once, near tbe conclusion, however, the students did not cheer, tut Lord Kelvin, from force of habit, rapped out “Silence!" the same as before. A Cute Lad. A young Irishman once went to a kind hearted old squire for a recommendation. An elaborate one was written and read to him. He took it with thanks, but did net move. “What’s the matter with it?” roared the squire, “Oh. nothin, sorr, ” said the lad quickly. “Well. then, why don’t yon go? “Sure, sorr, I thought on the stringth of a recommind like that you d be wantin to hire me.”—San Francisco Argonaut. Sound Transmission* Water is a very good transmitte- cl sound. A scientist of the name of Cal ladoa made some experiments on Lake Geneva. Switzerland, to demonstrate tbe power of sound to travel a long way in water. A clock was made to strike under the water and was heard to a distance of 12 miles In a second ex periment tbe striking of a clock was heard to a distance of 27 miles. A Triple Coincidence. An almost incredible triple coinci dence was noted in France a few years ago In 1894 the deputy for tbe Ar dennes was M. Ferry; for Loir et Cher M Brisson, and for tbe Vosges. M Hngo In 1793. 101 years earlier, each district had been represented in tbe chamber by a man of exactly tha same name. —San Francisco Call. Not Her Style. "The idea!” exclaimed the sensa tional actress as she beat an angry tat too on the floor with her slipper. "What’s the trouble? Can’t you get your divorce?" “Yes, bat that lawyer has offered tc secure it without publicity I”—Washington Star.

A Sndly Lo»l Dime. When last in New York, Carnegie aad a bitter experience with a messenger bey, whose tardiness in delivering a business message came near upsetting a deal of great importance. Referring to this incident while at dinner with friends that evening, he told of an office ! boy who worked for him many years ago when be was of far less importance in the commercial world. “James,” said Mr. Carnegie, “was a willing boy, but his ability as a stutterer was simply wonderful, and I often found it more convenient to attend to little errands myself than to wait for his explanations. One day a neighbor wanted to send a nice note clear across the city, and I permitted James to carry it for him. The trip was a long one. and James was gone quite three hours. When he returned, I asked him how much he had charged for bis services. “ ‘Fi-fi-fi-fi-fi-fi-fi-fifteen c-c-c-centsl was the gasping reply. “ ‘Why didn’t you make it a quarter?’ I asked. “ ‘I c-c-c-c-c-conld-could-couldn’t s-s-s-s-say it,’ he replied, with tears as well as hyphens in his voice. “Right then I made up my mind never to give anyone my services without first making sure that I cculd recite my price without stuttering, and 1 never have.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Return of the Rations. In the civil war our soldiers faced privation and hunger. A little stcry in H. Clay Trumbull’s book, “War Memories of a Chaplain," tells of the spirit in which they sometimes did it. ■While before Petersburg doing siege work in the summer of 1864, our men had wormy hard tack served out to them. It was a severe trial to the men Breaking open the biscuits and finding live worms in them, they would throw the pieces in the trenches, although the orders were to keep the trenches clean. A brigade officer of the day, seeing some of these scraps along cur front, called out sharply to our men: “Throw that hard tack out of the trenches.” Then, as the men promptly gathered it up, he added, “Don’t you know that you’ve no business to throw bard tack in the trenches?" Ont from the injured soldier heart there came the reasonable explanation, “We’ve thrown it out two or three times, sir, but it crawls back." Pretty Lively Fating. When one grows weary of the eternal ices, blancmanges, charlottes and puddings served to us year in and year out for dessert, it is pleasant to hear of an innovation. A traveled American remarked that she once had the felicity of sitting down to a Japanese dinner at which were served such dainties as melons, ices, fruits and sea frogs. There was in addition to these sweets a covered dish, into which, at the beginning of the dinner, a bottle of wine had been poured. When the sea frogs and other dainties had been discussed, the cover of this dish was removed, and a number of sandhoppers, hilariously intoxicated and jumpreg about in the wildest manner, ...t-. ♦Go rru7O nF thp flfitnn-

were presented to the gaze or tiie astonished American guests. The lively dessert. so the fair traveler says, was caught by the Japanese with little bamboo sticks and eaten with great gusto. Chinese Torture. The ingenuity of the Chinese in devising punishment for offenders surpasses that of the most cruel people of . the middle ages. Some time ago a boy I was kidnaped from a village about 30 ’ miles from Chin-Kiang and brought to that city to be sold. The kidnapers were arrested and returned to tbe village, where the people dug a hole in the ground, like a grave, about three feet deep, covered the bottom and sides with unslaked lime, placed the offend- ’ er, with his hands and feet tied, upon the lime and covered his body with tbe same material. Then they filled tbe ‘ hole full of water and as the lime slacked he was roasted alive and his body consumed. The New Way. The cannibal chief stood with his band shading his eyes. A solitary figure was timidly creeping toward him from the jungle. Suddenly the old chief 1 started. He took a quick step forward. “It is, ”he cried, “it is my eon! He is coming home again!’ Then with his 1 eyes still fixed on the slouching figure be shrilly called to his bead hunter 1 “Mbongwa, the prodigal is returning! Kill the fatted Kaffir!”—Cleveland 1 Plain Dealer. A Little Matter Ainonts Friends. 1 Two boys were in fighting, attitude like bantams; another and a smaller 1 one stood watching them, wiping his eyes, sobbing the while. "What did yer hit him for?” said ! one. “ ‘Tain’t none of your business." “Yes, it is; he’s my friend." “Well, he’s my friend too." —New York Commercial Advertiser. An Lndeuired Ally. “How is Mud Slinger going to side in this race? Is he for yon?" “That’s what’s worrying me,” re plied the candidate for office. “If 1 thought he was going to be against me. I would feel surer of election. "—Col umbus (O.) State Journal. Hlm Reference. Chief (to commercial traveler seek--1 ing a place) —Do yo’n know bow to talk up goods to customers? Applicant—Allow me to turn on this phonograph with a conversation between a customer and myself.—Fliegende Blatter. The title of “majesty" was first giv ! en to Louis XI of France. Before that 1 time sovereigns were usually styled “highness. ” A beggar is usually a touching object.—Berlin (Md.) Herald.

Rolled Rice. Thomas Murray, tbe noted chef, says many cooks do not know how to do so simple a thing as to boil rice properly Each grain of rice, be says, should be distinct, whole, but at the same time tender. To accomplish this, a small qnantity of rice should be bodied in a large pot nearly filled with water. Put it into cold water and a little salt and boil rapidly for 20 or 30 minutes. Test the grains occasionally, and when a slight pressure between the thumb and) forefinger will crush thety they are done ''' allowed to boil till the grains bn: iled in a small quantity of wni grains will stick together. When uoue. drain oft the water and set the rice on the range, where it will keep warm. — Exchange. Hay Crop* on Ice. Farmers who live in the vicinity of Muskego lake, in southeastern Wisconsin, derive a profitable income from the lake each winter by harvesting hay on the ice. Tbe shallowness of the water in the lake bed causes tiie grass growing on the bottom to project considerably above the surface, and when the ice forms the hay can be cut with great ease, though it cannot be got at the rest of the year on ac count of the boggy nature of the lake bottom. While the population of France has increased only 10 per cent in the last 50 years, the number of state officials, according to M. Turquan. shows an increase of 121 per cent.

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